[agents] CfP: 11th Interaction and Concurrency Experience (ICE 2018)

[Simon Bliudze]

ICE 2018
11th Interaction and Concurrency Experience
June 20-21, 2018, Madrid, Spain

Satellite workshop of DisCoTec 2018


=== Highlights ===

- Distinctive selection procedure involving friendly forum interaction
- ICE welcomes full papers to be included in the proceedings
- ICE also welcomes oral communications of already published or 
preliminary work
- Submission deadline: April 6
- Invited talks: TBA
- Publication in EPTCS
- Special issue in the Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in 
Programming (Elsevier) (to be confirmed)


=== Important Dates ===

April 6, 2018...........................Paper submission
April 6-May 11, 2018....................Reviews and PC discussion
May 14, 2018............................Notification to authors
June 20-21, 2018........................ICE in Madrid
July 15, 2018...........................Camera-ready for post-proceedings


=== Scope ===

Interaction and Concurrency Experiences (ICEs) is a series of 
international scientific meetings oriented to theoretical computer 
science researchers with special interest in models, verification, 
tools, and programming primitives for complex interactions.

The general scope of the venue includes theoretical and applied aspects 
of interactions and the synchronization mechanisms used among components 
of concurrent/distributed systems, related to several areas of computer 
science in the broad spectrum ranging from formal specification and 
analysis to studies inspired by emerging computational models.

We solicit contributions relevant to Interaction and Concurrency, 
including but not limited to:
* Formal semantics
* Process algebras and calculi
* Models and languages
* Protocols
* Logics and types
* Expressiveness
* Model transformations
* Tools, implementations, and experiments
* Specification and verification
* Coinductive techniques
* Tools and techniques for automation
* Synthesis techniques


=== Selection Procedure ===

Since its first edition in 2008, the distinguishing feature of ICE has 
been an innovative paper selection mechanism based on an interactive, 
friendly, and constructive discussion amongst authors and PC members in 
an online forum.

During the review phase, each submission is published in a dedicated 
discussion forum. The discussion forum can be accessed by the authors of 
the submission and by all PC members not in conflict with the submission 
(the forum preserves anonymity). The forum is used by reviewers to ask 
questions, clarifications, and modifications from the authors, allowing 
them better to explain and to improve all aspects of their submission. 
The evaluation of the submission will take into account not only the 
reviews, but also the outcome of the discussion.

As witnessed by the past nine editions of ICE, this procedure 
considerably improves the accuracy of the reviews, the fairness of the 
selection, the quality of camera-ready papers, and the discussion during 
the workshop.

Last year we adopted a successful light double-blind reviewing process, 
detailed below.


=== Submission Guidelines ===

We invite two types of submissions:

- Research papers, original contributions that will be published in the 
workshop post-proceedings. Research papers must not be simultaneously 
submitted to other conferences/workshops with refereed proceedings. 
Research papers should be 3-16 pages plus at most 2 pages of references. 
Short research papers are welcome; for example a 5 page short paper fits 
this category perfectly.

- Oral communications will be presented at the workshop, but will not 
appear in the post-proceedings. This type of contribution includes e.g. 
previously published contributions, preliminary work, and position 
papers. There is no strict page limit for this kind of submission but 
papers of 1-5 pages would be appreciated. For example, a one page 
summary of previously published work is welcome in this category.

Authors of research papers must omit their names and institutions from 
the title page, they should refer to their other work in the third 
person and omit acknowledgements that could reveal their identity or 
affiliation. The purpose is to avoid any bias based on authors’ identity 
characteristics, such as gender, seniority, or nationality, in the 
review process. Our goal is to facilitate an unbiased approach to 
reviewing by supporting reviewers’ access to works that do not carry 
obvious references to the authors’ identities. As mentioned above, this 
is a lightweight double-blind process. Anonymization should not be a 
heavy burden for authors, and should not make papers weaker or more 
difficult to review. Advertising the paper on alternate forums (e.g., on 
a personal web-page, pre-print archive, email, talks, discussions with 
colleagues) is permitted, and authors will not be penalized by for such 
advertisement.

Papers in the “Oral communications” category need not be anonymized. For 
any questions concerning the double blind process, feel free to consult 
the ICEcreamers.

We are keen to enhance the balanced, inclusive and diverse nature of the 
ICE community, and would particularly encourage female colleagues and 
members of other underrepresented groups to submit their work.

Submissions must be made electronically in PDF format via EasyChair 
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ice2018).

=== Publications ===

Accepted research papers and communications must be presented at the 
workshop by one of the authors.

Accepted research papers will be published after the workshop in 
Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (http://eptcs.org/).

We plan to invite authors of selected papers and brief announcements to 
submit their work in a special issue in the Journal of Logical and 
Algebraic Methods in Programming (Elsevier). Such contributions will be 
regularly peer-reviewed according to the standard journal policy, but 
they will be handled in a shorter time than regular submissions. A list 
of published and in preparation special issues of previous ICE editions 
is reported below.

=== Invited Speakers ===

TBA

=== Program Committee ===

Rabéa Ameur-Boulifa (Telecom-ParisTech, FR)
Simon Bliudze (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH)
Filippo Bonchi (University of Pisa, IT)
Roberto Bruni (University of Pisa, IT)
Stefano Calzavara (University Ca’ Foscari Venezia, IT)
Tzu-Chun Chen (TU Darmstadt, DE)
Matteo Cimini (Indiana University, USA)
Tiziana Cimoli (University of Cagliari, IT)
Corina Cirstea (University of Southampton, UK)
Ornela Dardha (University of Glasgow, UK)
Michell Guzmán (Universidad del Valle, CO)
Tobias Heindel (University of Copenhagen, DK)
Nils Jansen (The University of Texas at Austin, US)
Christos Kloukinas (City University London, UK)
Ivan Lanese (University of Bologna, IT)
Julien Lange (University of Kent, UK)
Michael Lienhardt (University of Bologna, IT)
Alberto Lluch Lafuente (Technical University of Denmark, DK)
Jean Marie Madiot (ENS Lyon, FR)
Anastasia Mavridou (Vanderbilt University, US)
Hernan Melgratti (University of Buenos Aires, AR)
Claudio Mezzina (IMT Lucca, IT)
Dominic Orchard (University of Kent, UK)
Jorge Perez (University of Groningen, NL)
Kristin Peters (TU Berlin, DE)
Matteo Sammartino (University College of London, UK)
Alceste Scalas (Imperial College London, UK)
Alexandra Silva (University College London, UK)
Ana Sokolova (University of Salzburg, AT)
Hugo Torres Vieira (IMT Lucca, IT)
Roberto Zunino (University of Trento, IT)
Johannes Åman Pohjola (Chalmers University, SE)


=== ICEcreamers ===

Massimo Bartoletti (University of Cagliari, IT; PC co-chair)
Laura Bocchi (University of Kent, UK)
Ludovic Henrio (CNRS, Sophia Antipolis, FR)
Sophia Knight (Uppsala University, SE; PC co-chair)


=== Steering Committee ===

Simon Bliudze (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH)
Filippo Bonchi (University of Pisa, IT)
Roberto Bruni (University of Pisa, IT)
Alexandra Silva (University College London, UK)
Paola Spoletini (Kennesaw State University, US)
Emilio Tuosto (University of Leicester, UK)


=== Previous editions ===

The previous ten editions of ICE have been held on
* July 6, 2008 in Reykjavik, Iceland, co-located with ICALP'08. The 
post-proceedings were published in ENTCS (vol. 229-3).
* August 31, 2009 in Bologna, Italy, co-located with CONCUR'09. The 
post-proceedings were published in EPTCS (vol. 12) and selected papers 
appeared in a joint special issue of MSCS (with EXPRESS’09 and SOS’09, 
Vol. 22, Number 2).
* June 10, 2010 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, co-located with 
DisCoTec'10. The post-proceedings were published in EPTCS (vol. 38) and 
selected papers appeared in a joint special issue of SACS (with 
CAMPUS'10 and CS2BIO'10, Vol. XXI).
* June 9, 2011 in Reykjavik, Iceland, co-located with DisCoTec'11. The 
post-proceedings were published in EPTCS (vol. 59) and selected papers 
appeared in a special issue of SACS (Vol. XXII).
* June 16, 2012 in Stockholm, Sweden, co-located with DisCoTec'12. The 
post-proceedings were published in EPTCS (vol. 104) and selected papers 
appeared in a special issue of SCP (vol. 100).
* June 6, 2013 in Florence, Italy, co-located with DisCoTec’13. The 
post-proceedings were published in EPTCS (vol. 131) and selected papers 
appeared in a special issue of SCP (vol. 109).
* June 6, 2014 in Berlin, Germany, co-located with DisCoTec’14. The 
post-proceedings were published in EPTCS (vol. 166) and selected papers 
appeared in a special issue of JLAMP (Vol. 85, Number 3).
* June 4-5, 2015 in Grenoble, France, co-located with DisCoTec’15. The 
post-proceedings were published in EPTCS (vol. 189) and selected papers 
appeared in a special issue of JLAMP (Vol. 86, Number 1).
* June 21-22, 2016 in Heraklion, Greece, co-located with DisCoTec’16. 
The post-proceedings were published in EPTCS (vol. 223) and a special 
issue of JLAMP (Vol. 92).
* June 21-22 2017 in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, co-located with 
DisCoTec’17. The post-proceedings were published in EPTCS (vol. 261) and 
a special issue of JLAMP is in preparation.